G.K. Chesterton: His Life, Writings, and Lasting Impact (Dale Ahlquist) | Ep. 451

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Matt Fradd

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Called the Prince of Paradox G.K. Chesterton was one of the greatest thinkers and writers of the 20th Century. JRR Tolkien memorized all 143 lines of Chesterton's "Lepanto". C.S. Lewis once said, “the best popular defense of the full Christian position I know is G. K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man.” Ronald Knox, the Scholar and Biblical Translator, homilizing at his funeral said, "All of this generation has grown up under Chesterton’s influence so completely that we do not even know when we are thinking Chesterton". Dale Ahlquist the founder of the Chesterton Society and Chesterton Academies joins the show to talk about the life and writings of the Man that was Chesterton.

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0:00.0	Dale Orquist was very intense, very directional, very intended.
0:05.0	How are you?
0:06.0	The better for your asking, God bless you, Matt.
0:09.0	So knee braces.
0:11.0	When did you get knee braces?
0:13.0	When my knee started hurting.
0:15.0	How long ago was that?
0:17.0	Let's just say it was more than a year ago. It's relative, isn't it, how our bodies begin to decay?
0:25.6	You know, like I'm 40, and I get a sore back, and I'm sure you'd look at me and go, you got no idea.
0:30.6	But that's what I say to him and that's what he says to someone younger than him.
0:34.6	I'm falling apart slowly, Matt.
0:36.6	Even as you watch me, I'm falling apart.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:40.3	Very gradually.
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:42.3	Well, it's good to have you on the show.
0:43.3	I mean, I am someone who would like to love Chesterton.
0:47.3	And I hear that you're the fellow who could just push me over the edge.
0:51.3	Well, I have made it a passion of mine to spread the good news of
0:55.6	Chesterton. When I first read him, it was, I need other people to hear about this. I feel
1:00.6	like I've been cheated, but I'm not going to let anybody else be cheated. When did you
1:05.9	first encounter him? In 1981. Okay, I was negative two. Nobody asked me, sorry.
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